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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote:

> ....I am not burning a CD or using any physical media. I am booting
> directly off the image file using iLO. Hence the stuff in that thread
> doesnt apply. It's defintely 8 specific - I can boot an mage
> from 7 it works fine, but 8 doesn't.

Just in case it was the same issue I faced with some ILO stuff...

My problem was that the ILO CDROM presented it's drive as starting
from block one (or somesuch nonsense).  I ended up doing a netinstall
because the boot would work (BIOS understood what was going on) but
FreeBSD did not.